Letter: Flowers has it right on bigotry

It is time to step into the 21st century and realize that bigotry in any case is wrong in America (yes, this includes the Catholic haters at your paper).

The No Nothing Party of old has been put to rest except in established sanctuaries such as your paper and large parts of our federal government. You cannot dictate to people what their religion teaches them.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonya Sotomoayer’s vote as a Catholic on the Hobby Lobby case was fine by your standards, but when other Catholics vote another way you claim it’s based on their religion, and you mock them for believing what their religion teaches them. Since when do Catholics and other faiths have to check their religion at the door? Are they not allowed to believe in what their faith teaches?

The Pilgrims came to this country to escape religious intolerance and now we have the president of the United States and newspapers that defend him waging war on religion, in particular those that go against the abortion/contraception mandate. At least one writer at your paper, Christine Flowers, has it right.